Rook on the Book

Silly Poem
Written By Matt Antis

Rooked at gunpoint at a quarter to eight
Booked the assailant at half past ten
Send the lady out to scream again

He thumbed his hat, itched his nose
While a stunned passerby tripped unintentionally
He and the bloke are arrested conventionally

Shouting, “I didn’t!” through the night
Pouting in the back seat, sent to the guillotine
Entrapment makes him wish for a time machine

Stepping out, he’s placed by another bloke
The lady point’s right past them both
The third is guilty she says under oath

The constable says, “Let those two go.”
The women blushes at the gaffe
While the men nervously belly laugh

Copyright © 2020 by Matt Antis. Originally published in Poet’s Guild’s Poem-A-Day on December 19, 2020, by Ink Jot Kingdom.

Matt Antis

Matt Antis creates online as a freelance writer and novelist who formerly lived as a serial small-business entrepreneur. His life’s goal is to share knowledge, encourage, and challenge others through a coach-student relationship.

An unexpected deployment with the Army in 2009 halted his scholastic achievement, but! He learned the bulk of business in the proverbial trench elbow to elbow with a team of professionals who he is forever grateful for.

When he’s not being a husband, dad, shooting his bow or training parkour, you can find him teaching Sunday school, advising parkour gyms, writing for inkjotkingdom.com and his wife’s children’s book website, whitneyantis.com.

https://inkjotkingdom.com
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